Wednesday’s Long Beach Unified School District Board of Education meeting saw the board unanimously approve an $11 million Site Security Plan to fence the 28 LBUSD sites that currently have open plans. The Site Security Plan will also add a video-monitoring system to every LBUSD site that would require the office to buzz in any […]
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Baseball: Lakewood Tied For First After Beating Millikan
This is supposed to be a new day in the Moore League, with more hits and runs than the usual season of high-quality ball played at Blair Field. Someone forgot to tell the Lakewood Lancers, who clawed their way into a first-place tie with their second consecutive low-scoring thriller at Blair, edging Millikan 2-1. The […]
PHOTOS: Lakewood vs. Millikan Baseball
We’ve got some great shots from the Lakewood win by photographer Stephen Dachman.
The562.org’s Athletes of the Week
This week’s edition of our weekly awards. HIGH SCHOOL Joey Vega, Wilson Softball Wilson softball broke Lakewood’s 65-game Moore League win streak last week, thanks in large part to a great performance from senior Joey Vega, who scattered eight hits and a walk with eight strikeouts in a complete game performance. She stranded four runners […]
LB In MLB: Three Local Boys Hit Meaningful Show Homers
A trio of Moore League baseball alums have hit very meaningful Major League Baseball home runs in the last week. JP Crawford hit his first career home run into the second deck of Citizens Bank Park on Wednesday. The Philadelphia Phillies shortstop started the season with a 1-for-25 hitting slump, but has been working hard. […]
Lakewood Volleyball Looking Like CIF Title Contender
When the Lakewood Lancers boys’ volleyball team started the season, coach Devon Taylor said the team didn’t write down specific benchmarks to measure the year by. “We didn’t set any tangible goals, we didn’t talk about winning Moore League or winning CIF,” he said. “We just wanted to create an environment where everyone could get […]
PHOTOS: Lakewood vs. Millikan Boys’ Volleyball
We’ve got some great photos of the Lakewood Millikan boys’ volleyball match from our own Stephen Dachman.
Lakewood Baseball Outlasts Wilson In Extra Innings
Moore League baseball fans have seen enough pitcher’s duels at Blair Field to know that not all low-scoring affairs are created equal. It wasn’t exactly Chase De Jong and Shane Watson revisited on Wednesday night, but three pitchers combined to put up eight scoreless innings before a ninth inning suicide squeeze bunt executed by Kevin […]